Jacob Blake is paralyzed from waist down and it will take miracle for him to walk again after Kenosha shooting
JACOB "Jake" Blake is paralyzed from the waist down and it will "take a miracle for him to walk again" after the Kenosha shooting.
On Sunday evening, shocking footage emerged showing , 29, being gunned down by in Kenosha, .
Instead, the father-of-six was shot at least seven times in the back in front of his three sons, who were sitting in an as he tried to enter the vehicle.
told the newspaper his son's body is now riddled with eight bullets.
Blake is also paralyzed from the waist down – and medics don't know yet if this will be a permanent condition.
“Those police officers that shot my son like a dog in the street are responsible for everything that has happened in the city of Kenosha,” he said.
"That man just literally grabbed him by his shirt and looked the other way and was just shooting him," Booker said.
Meanwhile, Kenosha County was forced to close the The Kenosha County Courthouse and Administration Building " on Sunday night.
Blake was transferred to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee after he was shot, the WI DOJ said, where he remains in a serious condition.
DCI, Wisconsin State Patrol and Kenosha County Sheriff's Office are heading up the investigation.
Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers blasted the "excessive use of force" in front of 's kids amid .
Democratic presidential nominee ; Rep ; Senators and ; and 's niece Mary Trump also condemned the shooting.
The Kenosha shooting comes three months after 's police custody death in triggered outrage and mass demonstrations across the .